Chapter 927 Spiritual Power
Zhou Zeyao slowly shook his head, offering another answer.
“If I’m not mistaken, it wasn’t caused by those three demon beasts breaking through. Chen Yang is refining pills.”
Hearing this, Wei Zhenru gasped.
Disbelievingly, he retorted to Zhou Zeyao, “What kind of pills is Chen Yang refining? Even with the most premium materials, a pill to restore origin power alone shouldn't attract heavenly lightning, should it?”
The implication was clear: he didn't believe the heavenly lightning was caused by Chen Yang’s pill refining.
A faint smile appeared on Zhou Zeyao’s face, but he didn't answer the question.
Chen Yang’s pill refining techniques were such that even he, Zhou Zeyao, dared not speak much about them. How could an outsider possibly know the intricacies?
For ordinary alchemists, condensing pills was already the mark of a top-tier alchemist.
However, Zhou Zeyao, having experienced the ancient martial era, knew this was merely the lowest level of alchemists.
Alchemists in the ancient martial era didn’t just refine pills.
They also divided the refined pills into different grades.
The highest grade pills and the lowest grade pills were fundamentally different, even with the same techniques and materials.
That was the true era of pills.
Zhou Zeyao remembered very clearly a high-grade pill he had seen back then.
That pill bore the mark of heavenly lightning.
A pill with heavenly lightning patterns on its surface was a truly excellent pill!
Such pills had no side effects when consumed and offered certain miraculous effects.
Even in the ancient martial era, such items were valuable enough for auction.
He never expected that thousands of years later, he would have the fortune to witness the formation of a pill of this caliber.
Thinking of this, Zhou Zeyao couldn’t help but sigh.
The moment Chen Yang’s pill coalesced, a bolt of heavenly lightning descended silently, entering the pill directly.
It was precisely timed.
Only after seeing the mark on the pill did Chen Yang realize it had been heavenly lightning.
Cold sweat immediately broke out on Chen Yang’s forehead.
Heavenly lightning igniting earthly fire!
Chen Yang recalled how an alchemist from the Zhou family he encountered in the southwest region had disappeared in a similar manner.
The memory of that scene sent a shiver down his spine.
That was not the transformative lightning of earlier, but true destructive power.
Looking at the pill rolling in the furnace, Chen Yang immediately took it out and, at the same time, rushed to Chen Shu’s side as quickly as possible.
Chen Yang had only sensed that something was amiss from afar. But upon arriving and witnessing the transformation of the three demon beasts firsthand, he was utterly shocked.
“What’s going on? How did those three end up like this?”
The rat, black bear, and gray wolf had been with Chen Yang all along. Coupled with his previous assistance in breaking the seals within their bodies, Chen Yang was intimately familiar with them.
Yet, their current state was so altered that Chen Yang almost didn’t recognize them.
Even more terrifying was that the three demon beasts were now shifting towards a human form.
Chen Shu’s expression was also grim. This was the first time she had encountered such a situation.
Logically, for ordinary demon beasts to assume human form was a process called transformation.
The complexity of this process was no less than breaking through the peak of the Grandmaster realm.
But now, these three demon beasts were directly heading towards a human form.
This was clearly abnormal!
“The bloodline power within them has taken over their bodies. I suspect it has something to do with this bloodline power!”
As Chen Shu was speculating, a pained voice suddenly reached their ears.
“Boss, kill me! It’s not me anymore, it’s another entity occupying my body! He wants to take my body!”
It was the rat’s spiritual power!
Chen Yang’s expression darkened. The ‘he’ the rat spoke of was likely the entity within the bloodline power.
“Old Zhou! Come down here!”
Chen Yang could no longer afford to wait. He urgently called for Zhou Zeyao to come down.
Upon hearing Chen Yang’s call, Zhou Zeyao immediately put down his chess piece and headed towards Chen Yang’s location.
Witnessing this, Wei Zhenru’s expression flickered, and he followed suit.
Hu Feng initially tried to stop Wei Zhenru.
Unexpectedly, Wei Zhenru said, “If I wanted to leave, I would have left by now.”
“With such a major event happening below, how long can you two stop me?”
“Don’t worry, Chen Yang and that Chen Shu are both down there. I would only make a move if I wanted to die!”
Wei Zhenru genuinely wanted to know what was happening below.
When everyone had gathered, Chen Yang merely glanced at Wei Zhenru and said nothing more.
Zhou Zeyao, observing the situation, exclaimed in shock, “What a grand undertaking!”
“Hmm? Old Zhou, at this point, don’t play coy with me. What exactly is going on?”
Chen Yang’s sole desire now was to save the lives of the three demon beasts, provided their souls remained unchanged and they were still the same three demon beasts from before.
A bitter smile touched Zhou Zeyao’s lips. “I can only make a rough guess.”
“Actually… my situation is similar, except these three outsiders were activated from within their bloodline.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Yang immediately understood.
Possession!
The three demon beasts had been possessed, and by the power within their bloodline.
A myriad of questions flooded Chen Yang’s mind.
However, Chen Yang had no time to ponder them now. He had to completely purge the bloodline power from the bodies of the three demon beasts.
“Sever the spiritual power directly!”
As Chen Yang spoke, he began to act.
The rat, having advanced first, was in the most severe condition.
The human form was beginning to emerge, clearly indicating that the entity occupying his body was the most completely revived.
“Roar!”
The spiritual force possessing the rat’s body, sensing someone acting against it from the outside, immediately began to retaliate.
However, this mysterious power could only unleash spiritual force at the peak Grandmaster level.
Coupled with its somewhat chaotic thoughts, its spiritual force was utterly vulnerable before Chen Yang!
Chen Shu and Zhou Zeyao also immediately began to assist in dealing with the spiritual power within the black bear and gray wolf.
Moments later, the spiritual power within the three demon beasts had been completely cleared.
“After all that, they were all paper tigers?”
Chen Yang remarked, then quickly asked the rat, who had regained control of its body, “Can you still sense any other power within you?”
The rat, clearly weak after recovering, still mustered its strength and said, “No, it should have been completely purged by you, Boss.”
“However, I don’t seem to have the strength to continue breaking through now.”